Intro.

I finally opened my first store where a person can buy exquisite kinds of alcohol. After I tasted different kinds of alcohol, I realized that I wanted to devote my whole life to alcohol. After graduating from high school, I attended alcohol shows and alcohol tastings a lot. Then I took a comelier course and worked for the first time in restaurants. 

At first with small ones with minimal wine lists, and over time, through knowledge and networking, I got jobs at large, world-class restaurants. After a while, I attended wine schools and a little later went through WSET certification training. After that, I took a degree in France and became a caviste, and then I worked for a long time in wine shops and enotecas in different countries. Having saved some money I bought a small vineyard, and after a few years I was already standing in my own liquor store with a small but constant flow of customers. In my store it was possible to buy from inexpensive and high quality to famous alcoholic beverages.

- Hello, what can I recommend?

- Hello, I am going to a dinner party for my boss, I need a bottle of good wine.

- We have a large selection of chateau wines to suit all tastes. For example, I can offer you a Chateau Smith o Lafite Grand K...

- I don't care what kind of wine it is, as long as I can give it to my boss!

- ...yes, I see your point. I'll go to the cellar and get you some, if you'll excuse me.

"How I am annoyed by such customers who do not understand what they are buying, as if wine - it's ordinary alcohol that can only get drunk or to give as a gift!"  - I didn't even notice that I was already in the cellar by the rack I needed.

The cellar looked like a library. The racks were tall to save space, but instead of books, they were filled with bottles, and to get a certain wine, you had to use a ladder.

No sooner had I gotten my hands on the right bottle than I heard the cracking and scraping of metal.
And a moment later, lying on the floor, I saw the wine from the broken bottles spreading on the floor, but at that moment I realized that it wasn't wine, but my blood...

"Why did everything happen like this? Why, when I had almost achieved my dream, do I die so ridiculously? I didn't have time to do much else! I wanted to create my own alcoholic beverage that would be world famous!" - and with that last thought, I died.

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There was a nice breeze blowing on my face and it felt like I was lying on something soft. I opened my eyes and there were clouds all around me and grapes growing on pillars on different sides. I thought it was heaven, but then I was distracted by an inaudible voice.

- Get up my friend, get up ..... IK. You... IR.  Have a drink with me.

Reluctantly I stood up and saw before me either an old man or a man with luxuriant hair and a thick beard, with a strongly marked red nose; he was dressed in an exomis (chiton). He appeared to be very drunk: in one hand he held a large goblet, and with his other hand he held a large barrel.

- Hello, who are you and where am I ?

- Hello my friend, I am called by different names in your world Dionysus, Skelus, Seonid, Bragi, Radegast ....Ik... and many other names somewhere I am a god, somewhere I am a spirit.

"Drunken god, that's the last thing I need!"

- Here you go, my friend.

"I'll call him wine god. I think it'll be easier for me."

The wine god held out a goblet and poured into it from a barrel. It looked like a golden liquid with a very pleasant smell of grapes and subtle notes of vanilla. I took a couple sips. The flavor and aftertaste was irresistible, I wanted to drink and drink without stopping!

- What is it?

- It's ambrosia wine, and thanks to this wine .... IR.  You will be reborn in a new world after a while, where I will send you ..... IR- For you have honored alcohol for most of your life. You will be born into a family of aristocrats who have an unimaginable amount of ...IR farmland where anything your heart desires grows ...IR.  Here you can create whatever alcohol .... IR you want.

Chapter 1. A world without alcohol.

My name is Will. And I was born into a family of guess who? No, you weren't! I was born as the 4th child in the family of a farmer who was granted land by the emperor for merit. Of course, it was a lot of hectares of land, but of which a small amount is used to grow fodder for livestock and vegetables to eat, to sell.

Drunkard, drunkard, drunkard, alcoholic!!! This ungod sent me to a world where alcohol doesn't exist! Only the highest nobles or rulers can afford it in this world, so I can't taste it.
At the farmers from alcohol is a product similar to kvass, but with an unpleasant taste and odor, and the degree of alcohol is not higher than three.

In the rhythm of an ordinary farmer I lived 12 years, and I learned that in this world do not grow grape crops, and fruit or sugar-containing crops grew in other lands, but in small quantities or hard to reach places. There was no sugar in this world, it was replaced by honey, but it was extracted very difficult, apparently, they did not know what bee breeding was in this world. And in this world there was a fierce war between the two continents - demonic and united countries of the continent of Cyrus.

In 10 years, I have learned agriculture well. In my world, after buying a vineyard, I hadn't bothered to study agriculture, and surprisingly, the study came very easily to me. I planted several species of plants that tasted similar to tomatoes, in this world they were called "Beyond" and resembled persimmons in texture and consistency. My father said that I had the gift of a farmer and if I developed it I could plant all the fields, it could provide fresh vegetables for our country. I slowly began to accept that it was now my destiny to become a great farmer, but for some reason I was only getting sadder....

My father had prepared me to inherit this land in the future like my two older brothers. They didn't want to farm and went to study in the capital, while my older sister was engaged to a man from a noble family and got married after 16 years. Also, I had a younger sister, Ayva, she liked farming very much and was always helping me and my father in the fields, but most of the time she tailed me.

My mother was an adventurer in the past and after marrying my father, she devoted herself to household chores and raising the children, but my father tried not to quarrel with her because she always came out the winner. Secretly from my father she taught me various martial arts and magic. My father didn't approve of it, saying that I didn't need it, and I thought that any skill was useful and should be learned well. My father was a former warrior under the empire and participated in the wars against demons. No one remembered the reasons for the war. Afterward, he was granted lands in the east of the Mirun Empire for his military services, where he and his family live until now.

Mirun Empire is a huge country occupying a large part of the continent Cyrus, in the north, bordering the Empire of Legar, and the kingdom of Ian; in the east, and the countries of Costa and Mau; in the south, with the country of Tsing and small countries; in the west, we were separated by the sea with the continent of demons.

That's all I knew from my father and mother's stories, but one day, because of a strange incident, I decided to completely change this world.

It was lunch break, after lunch I was reading a book as usual. In my family, education was given by my parents. Schools were only in big cities and it was expensive to attend. And the book was not easy, my mother gave it to me. It was the basics of earth and water magic. Yes, there is magic in this world.  There were also books of fire and air, which I had studied earlier.

Magic in this world was widespread and anyone could have it. It was hard to learn it because it was based on feelings and understanding what you wanted to get when performing a spell.

When casting a spell, you had to spell out what you wanted to create, pierce your hand and say the spell activation word, but it wasn't that simple. There was a certain principle of words in the books and if you violated a certain order you could cripple yourself and others. There was also the magic of thought, and it was given to people very hard, and in it, too, everything depended on the correct construction of thought.  It was faster to use, but also more dangerous, and at the end of it, one had to say the word of activation. In both cases, it was the word: "actus".

There were 6 types of magic based on fire, water, air, earth, light and darkness. The spells of fire, water, earth and air were mostly used. They were combined and learned in tandem. The easiest thing to do was to summon the base of these magics. Water, gave water; earth, gave anything to do with stones earth minerals; Fire, gave fire; air, gave wind.

But more difficult were the combinations. Fire and air gave flame. And to achieve a large flame it was necessary not just to say fire and air, but it was necessary to say: "Oh, wind, blow the flame and light the way in the darkness, actus!" or "Oh, wind, blow the flame and burn my enemies!", with these spells the strength of the flame will be different.

When using thought magic, one had to visualize the fire being blown by the wind and visualize the power of the fire, but one could not be distracted or imagine anything else at that moment, otherwise one could provoke an explosion or get a kickback from the spell. Mental magic in simple spells was safe, but in combat it was more dangerous for the one using it, as there was a chance of distraction in combat. There were also combinations of 3 or 4 types of magic, they are more complex and very long to build, you could make a mistake in them, and that again was dangerous.

There is also the magic of light and darkness, but there were no books on this magic freely available. There were not many spells on this magic, about one for each country, and only a select few possessed this magic. Mostly this magic could be found in magical items. In the book, I found an interesting combination to speed up the growth of plants. After I finished reading, I decided to take a walk.

- Mom, Dad, I'm going for a walk.

- Just be there before sunset! - my father said after me.

- Yes, Dad.

But I wasn't going for a walk, I wanted to test a magic combination to speed up plant growth. I went to the forest 4 kilometers from home, away from the sight of people.

As I searched, I came across a young tree that was different from the ones growing around it in that it had a large crown. It was still young and I decided to experiment with it with mental magic. Pointing my hand, I imagined rain watering the ground and the first sprouts sprouting from the ground.

- Actus.

And at that moment a very colorful picture appeared before my eyes. The crown of the tree lit up with light and it began to grow at a very fast speed, after a moment the light disappeared and the energy that was directed into the tree, hit me with a recoil.

- Was I mistaken?

I thought I was dreaming and in front of me and around me there were many lines like multicolored rays and at the tips of these rays I could see different plants
all these rays were coming from my body.

I woke up at home. It turns out that when I did not return home on time, my parents got worried and went looking for me. They found me at night under a big tree.

- Apparently my magic worked! Why did I get a kickback and what was that dream?

Sis Iva ran into the room and grabbed my sleeve: - Brother, let's go! You have to see this!

- What happened, sis?

- The tree!

And following her to the window, I saw a huge tree: part of the upper crown of the tree was hidden in the clouds, and under the crown of the plant there could be a whole city.  I now realized that the spell had worked, but I hadn't expected it to work that well.

- They found you under this tree, little brother, it wasn't that big yet, but this morning it was even bigger! And daddy's calling you, he's mean. Do you want me to go with you so he doesn't scold you too much?

- Thanks, sis, but I'll take my punishment myself and in full.

I went to my father's office: "I guess my mom's gonna give me a hard time, too. She always told me to do my magic discreetly, and now this."

Knock, knock

- Come in.

- Did you call Daddy?

Daddy was standing by the window against a tree, since the windows of our house were directly facing the result of my spell. It looked really cool. Mom was sitting on the couch against the wall.

- We found you under this tree and you were unconscious. What happened to you?

I looked at mammy and she nodded, letting me know that dad knew about me studying magic.

- I went for a walk to test out a spell to speed up plant growth so I could try it out in agriculture. I came across a tree that didn't look like the ones growing around me and decided to try the spell on it, but after casting the spell, I got a kick and lost consciousness, and woke up at home. That's all I remember.

My father sighed heavily: - The main thing is that you are all right, about the tree we will gather the council of elders. And you are punished!

- For what?

- For practicing magic quietly without supervision. My wife, this is your fault too!

- He understands magic very well and I thought he could do it on his own. I was never taught, I learned it all on my own, and he's my son!

- I understand, but look what happened. It's a good thing he wasn't hurt. Anyway, if you're going to train magic, with a few conditions: You have to train under someone's supervision and besides magic, you have to train combat skills.

- Yes, daddy, I agree!

I spent the whole day in the fields. There was no winter in our region and the temperature never dropped below +20. Because of this, we could grow crops up to several times a year, depending on the crop.  The sowing season was just around the corner and there was a lot of work to be done. As the sun set, I headed home.

"I'm finally home, how tired I am."

After eating, I headed to my room and just as my head touched the pillow, I fell asleep.

- Will.... Will... Will.

I woke up to someone calling my name, but there was no one in the room.

- Will ... Will.

I started to look around in a panic, no one was there, but the voice was somewhere nearby.
Looking toward the window, I saw the flowers of the creeper that partially covered our walls in the view. It was an ordinary creeper, and the flowers reminded me of something like a rose. And a voice came from the flowers.

- Yes, that's me, - Said back to the voice.

- Come closer and touch it.

I was a little scared, but I decided not to resist and touch.

When I touched the flowers I saw a very beautiful maiden, her hair was developing a golden light, the nakedness of her body was hidden by flowers, creating the effect of a veil. I was dumbfounded by what was happening.

- I am the spirit of the great tree. And goddess of fertility. And I'm grateful to you for helping me.

- Helped me how?

- My growth to this size is several thousand years and before you came to me I had already been growing for about a hundred years, but growth depends on the amount of Mana surrounding me. Your amount of mana was huge, even after reaching my size I still haven't used up all the mana you gave me. For this, I will give you a special ability as a thank you. Since I am connected to all the plants of this world and can see where they grow and their features, you can see them too, you just need to close your eyes and visualize what you need from the plant and what properties of the plant you need. I will channel the excess manna into the earth and the fertility of the surrounding land will increase.

Before I could say anything the vision dissolved like a fog, I saw only a tree illuminated by the moonlight. I went to my bed and went to sleep. When I woke up, I remembered what had happened during the night: "It must have been a dream".

I closed my eyes and imagined bunches of grapes with thick skins and a cloyingly sweet flavor. All I wanted now was just a bunch of grapes. In front of my eyes I saw a plant that looked like a vine covered with needles, and in the middle of the plant were berries that looked like grapes of different shapes. When I opened my eyes, the picture disappeared, for some reason I knew where this plant grew nearby.